Shelters are often inundated with pet surrenders, and do not want to provide a simple outlet that takes away the obligation of responsible pet ownership. Therefore, they would prefer that people try hard to find a solution before resorting to surrendering their pet to a shelter. If you must find a new home for a pet, please try posting to our adoption portal before placing the burden on the shelter. Direct adoptions work well and allow everyone to share in the accountability of their community!

Furrever Friends Rescue & Volunteers, Inc. (Woodbury)

Furrever Friends Rescue and Volunteers, Inc. (FFRV) is an all-volunteer-run 501(c)(3) nonprofit that strives to save the lives of homeless animals.

We do not euthanize any of the animals in our care simply to make room for new ones.

Although our operation is small, each and every homeless pet in our program receives the absolute best care possible until a "Furrever Home" can be found.

Through our adoption centers and foster homes, we provide a safe environment for the cats in our care until they are adopted.

Our volunteers work hard to:

* Provide safe, loving care in private homes until a furrever family can be found (known as "foster care".)
* Spay/neuter and vaccinate pets prior to adoption to help control the pet overpopulation problem.
* Find new, "Furrever Homes" for animals only after carefully screening potential adopters.
* Raise funds through special events and projects to cover veterinary and food costs.
* Fund emergency medical care to injured or abused animals in the FFRV program through "Geronimo's Fund".
* Showcase homeless animals at various venues to help find them homes, including our PetSmart Adoption Center in Deptford, NJ.

PO Box 141
Woodbury, NJ 08096
24/7 Hotline: 856-845-8554

Do you need to find a loving home for your pet?

No-kill shelters do wonderful work, but as a result, are often inundated with pet surrenders. In the unfortunate scenario that you have to find a new home for your pet, please read through the rehoming solution and articles on this page before contacting the shelter.

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3. Rescue Groups

An adoption or transfer to a rescue group frees up scarce cage and kennel space, reduces expenses for feeding, cleaning, killing, and improves a community's rate of lifesaving. In an environment of millions of dogs and cats killed in shelters annually, rare is the circumstance in which a rescue group should be denied an animal.

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4. Foster Care

Volunteer foster care is crucial to No Kill. Without it, saving lives is compromised. It is a low cost, and often no cost, way of increasing a shelter's capacity, improving public relations, increasing a shelter's public image, rehabilitating sick and injured or behaviorally challenged animals, and saving lives.

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5. Comprehensive Adoption Programs

Adoptions are vital to an agency's lifesaving mission. The quantity and quality of shelter adoptions is in shelter management's hands, making lifesaving a direct function of shelter policies and practice. In fact, studies show people get their animals from shelters only 20% of the time. If shelters better promoted their animals and had adoption programs responsive to the needs of the community, including public access hours for working people, offsite adoptions, adoption incentives, and effective marketing, they could increase the number of homes available and replace killing with adoptions. Contrary to conventional wisdom, shelters can adopt their way out of killing.

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6. Pet Retention

While some of the reasons animals are surrendered to shelters are unavoidable, others can be prevented-but only if shelters are willing to work with people to help them solve their problems. Saving animals requires communities to develop innovative strategies for keeping people and their companion animals together. And the more a community sees its shelters as a place to turn for advice and assistance, the easier this job will be.

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7. Medical and Behavior Programs

In order to meet its commitment to a lifesaving guarantee for all savable animals, shelters need to keep animals happy and healthy and keep animals moving through the system. To do this, shelters must put in place comprehensive vaccination, handling, cleaning, socialization, and care policies before animals get sick and rehabilitative efforts for those who come in sick, injured, unweaned, or traumatized.

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8. Public Relations/Community Involvement

Increasing adoptions, maximizing donations, recruiting volunteers and partnering with community agencies comes down to one thing: increasing the shelter's exposure. And that means consistent marketing and public relations. Public relations and marketing are the foundation of all a shelter's activities and their success. To do all these things well, the shelter must be in the public eye.

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9. Volunteers

Volunteers are a dedicated "army of compassion" and the backbone of a successful No Kill effort. There is never enough staff, never enough dollars to hire more staff, and always more needs than paid human resources. That is where volunteers come in and make the difference between success and failure and, for the animals, life and death.

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10. Proactive Redemptions

One of the most overlooked areas for reducing killing in animal control shelters are lost animal reclaims. Sadly, besides having pet owners fill out a lost pet report, very little effort is made in this area of shelter operations. This is unfortunate because doing so-primarily shifting from passive to a more proactive approach-has proven to have a significant impact on lifesaving and allow shelters to return a large percentage of lost animals to their families.

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11. A Compassionate Director

The final element of the No Kill equation is the most important of all, without which all other elements are thwarted-a hard working, compassionate animal control or shelter director not content to regurgitate tired cliches or hide behind the myth of "too many animals, not enough homes." Unfortunately, this one is also oftentimes the hardest one to demand and find.

Hi. I have been renting a home from a bank (previous landlord lost it in foreclosure) for almost 2 years. Now the bank wants us to move. I have 2 lab catahoula mix dogs. They are approximately 1 1/2 years old. 1 male black and 1 female brindle. Also a female cat approximately 2 years old. I can not take them with me and am heartbroken. But I do not even know where we are going to live and don't want to put them in a shelter to be killed. The dogs lately have been losing hair and have dry flaky skin but I do not have the money to take them to a vet as I must try to save all the money we have for security deposit if and when we find a place to go. I could really use some help. Desperate.

I need a home or no kill shelter for my 4yr old pit bull. He has to go right away or I will have no choise but to put him in a shelter which will euthanize him. I'm tring many different avenues thru social media and reaching out to organizations. Please help. Call me at 2019567199